In the novels story, one of the hotels former owners has a homosexual relationship with a party guest in a dog costume. As mentioned above, Kubrick left many details open to interpretation, whether for viewers to come up with their own explanations or just to mess with them. The bear also appears when a doctor visits Danny and his mother at. Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) enters The Overlook for an appointment with Mr. Ullman, the manager. Believers in this theory also suggest that the tidal wave of blood in the famous elevator scene represents the collective spilled blood of Native Americans. Of all the places in the film that a picture of bears could appear this one is right above Dannys bed and there are no other framed bear pictures in the film. An analysis of one. A hostile Jack threatens her and claims he has responsibilities to look after and will get rid of her if she bothered him. Watch my new Shining analysis video \"Danny's ordeal and the bear costumed man\" here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dW2GrG7Zk0UMy written Shining analysis articles and videos are at: http://www.collativelearning.com/FILMS%20reviews%20BY%20ROB%20AGER.htmlRob Ager's analysis of The Shining was plagiarized in a video posted on the Screen Prism channel and credited to Jeff Saporito. The film within a film parallel is also hinted at by the television content initially filling up our entire view of the scene before zooming out to reveal Danny and Wendy in the lobby. This documentary is an exhaustive cataloguing of allThe Shining fan theories big and small. The ball itself is featured in another scene with Jack throwing it against a wall in the hotel lobby. It seems that commitment to family is a problem for all of these males. This theory posits that the Overlook Hotel represents hell (or another form of afterlife for the ghosts such as purgatory). Interesting. Coincidence much? Stanley Kubrick's The Shining is a textbook example of a storied film. I think Kubricks version is more matured and tries to be realistic about itself, while keeping intact his use of underlying themes. Her gullible belief of Dannys room 237 story is plain silly. Sound familiar? He was an auteur with an exclusive vision and wouldnt settle for anything less. How did these pictures get there if Wendy does all the menial chores. Jack gets annoyed by Wendy coming in while he was working and tries hard not to completely lose it. Before he can retaliate, we hear the sounds of an engine running, marking the arrival of Halloran. Danny escapes through the window leaving behind Wendy who cant fit through. When the psychiatrist asks Danny Who's Tony Wendy, stood defensively with her arms folded, quickly interjects, Tonys his imaginary friend, as if trying to gloss over the issue. Our partial view of the felatio bear, before he leans back from the bed, matches our partial view of Danny brushing his teeth before his first Shining vision. He chose each clip for thematic reasons. Netflix. Jack like a crazy wolf, knocking down anything that comes his way, delivers the iconic line Heres Johnny! after hacking parts of the bathroom door. It is used throughout the movie to symbolize the incest and sexual abuse between Jack and Danny. The young woman had inexplicably transformed into an old lady who walks after the frantic Jack laughing all the while. He tells Kubricks daughter Vivian, You look cute in your red shirt, a soft porn calendar is seen on his bathroom door, he is seen unzipping his pants to pull out a tape recorder and he provocatively unbuttons his shirt to pull out the connecting wires. Here's the end of The Shining explained. Jack is a recovering alcoholic and relapses at the hotel. Its Tuesday, and frankly speaking shits about to go down. Its understood for people to develop a separate identity as a result of trauma, with the identity built upon the very details of such incidents, i.e, Tony living in Dannys mouth and Dannys reluctance to talk about it. Back in Boulder, we meet Jacks wife Wendy (Shelley Duvall) and his son Danny. On the way he passes by a red VW crushed by a truck, a sweet tongue in cheek dig at the source material. The meaning and topics addressed in the novel are very different than those in The Shining movie Stephen King hates so much, given Kubricks many changes to the story in order to fit his vision. Master the art of visual storytelling with our FREE video series on directing and filmmaking techniques. But The Shining bear man does have a disturbing and specific implication. This video is my attempt to put the record straight. The novel decided to show all the images at the beginning, while Kubrick decided to use the conventional step by step process to create suspense. In attempting to answer "what is The Shining about?" A previous caretaker Charles Grady had killed his family, including his two daughters and himself after a claustrophobic breakdown. Specifically, the spaceship sweater with Apollo 11 written on it, which was the name of the rocket used in the moon landing. She is an Audiovisual Communication graduate who wanted to be a filmmaker, but life had other plans (and it turned out great). Coming to Grady, who I think like Lloyd was a fragment of representation of the hotel that would explain his statement I have always been here and look how throughout the scene Jack looks right in the direction of the mirror, almost like envisioning himself. THE SHINING who is the man in the bear costume? But it is the mystery and strangeness of it all that makes it so terrifying. Jacks manifestation as a rotten, naked old woman in the room 237 dream sequence parallels the horrific physical disgust Danny would have felt during his nightmarish ordeal. Wendy seems to be thoroughly disturbed by this and runs away. Wednesday, and Danny finds the Room 237 ajar and we see him walking towards it because a red ball rolls upto him out of nowhere from that direction. Its also possible that the framing of the bear picture is a parallel of the felatio bear being seen within a door frame. She also finds Hallorans body, while an injured and weak Jack is chasing Danny through the maze. He is unable to put his undivided attention towards detailing while writing the story or thinking about it, since his consciousness pertains to a limit of recollection. There are emotional passages and images and spaces in his films that have an inexplicable power, with a magnetic force that draws you in slowly, mysteriously: the boy's rides on his Big Wheel through the endless corridors of the hotel in 'The Shining'; the monumental silence of outer space in '2001: A Space Odyssey'; the inhuman pace of the first Another shot through the mirrors perspective with Jack waking up and explaining Wendy about a feelingof deja vu in the hotel. Funnily enough, director Stanley Kubrick had a couple different endings in mind for The Shining, each of them very different. Note how the scene opens with a close-up shot of the beige typewriter and slowly zooms out. He decided to adapt Stephen Kings best selling novel, The Shining. . Theres something inherently wrong with the human personality. Kubricks mind is the limit to its extensiveness. Both Jack and Humbert are writers. Kubrick failed in adapting Stephen Kings book, but he succeeded in making a film full of metaphors and symbolism that have made way for countless interpretations of its true meaning. Kubrick deliberately left many things unexplained, including many details from the third act he did, however, explain why Jack Torrance appears in The Shining picture at the end. Its not much of a marriage. ew films inspire as many diverse fan theories and interpretations as Stanley Kubricks, a film that can be definitively explained? Some of the interpretations expressed in Room 237 are interesting and hold water. Mr Ullmann converses with Jack regarding formal details and warns him about the history of the Overlook. In this interview, Stephen King supports the notion that the Overlook Hotel could represent hell. Coming to Room 237 again, it was Jack who physically assaulted Danny and not the old lady, who serves as a metaphor for the disgusting act carried out by Jack on Danny, and this is exactly why it is shown through a mirror. Danny cleverly retraces back his footsteps and makes a false trail to confuse an already transfixed Jack and audience (the high pitched score literally tears you apart with anxiety and the fact that Kubrick changed the whole story in favor of a more pessimistic theme leaves you wondering about the outcome), who follows the footprints to get nowhere. This fan theory posits that Danny is Theseus and Jack is the minotaur in Kubricks extended metaphor. But it is clear that there is no Jack Torrance left, his insanity has reached its zenith. With a narrative that's as puzzling and confusing as the hedge maze found in the terrifying climax, The Shining has led fans to rack their head for it's various meanings for the past 40 years. Find out which other movies made it onto our list of the best horror soundtracks, up next. Jack later speaks to a disappointed Grady through the door, who believes Jack doesnt have the stomach to carry out the task. The dog/sexual abuse interpretation hasnt been confirmed by those involved in the film, so its up to each viewer if they accept it or not. On the way he sees the corridors filled with balloons and ribbons and discovers a huge party going on in the Gold Room. However, there are two different levels to this theory, and one is far more apparent than the other. Further evidence includes the cases of Tang in the Overlooks pantry and the otherwise innocuous change from Room 217 in the novel to Room 237 in the film. The Shining bear is no different, and, if Rob Ager's theory is correct, could explain a much darker nature to the relationship between Danny Torrance (Danny Lloyd) and his father, Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson). Whilst a framed picture of two bears can be seen hanging above Dannys bed at the start of the film, the most obvious reference to the terrifying animals can be seen when the boy is speaking to the psychiatrist after he faints in the bathroom. He also made a brief appearance in one of the bizarre " WTF ?" scenes in the 1980 adaptation of The Shining by director Stanley Kubrick. I dont go for number interpretations generally, but here Ill make an exception. Move forward a few seconds and we see a close-up of Jack, his unsettling green eyes beautifully matching the green sweater, a rough stubble compared to his shaven appearance a few seconds earlier, indications of insomnia as a result of writers block. Of course the caption relating to incest is the one thats relevant to this chapter, while the Starsky & Hutch caption may be a reference to Jack giving his soul for a drink and the affair caption could be related to Jacks encounter with the woman in room 237. 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